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They shouldn't ask such questions, but people also need to learn to push back against unreasonable behaviour too.

> I was in a group and we were writing small intros for BBSes with a couple of friends Ah that would have been such an awesome time. Thanks for sharing!

Ah wow. I really enjoyed the demoscene back in the 90s. Was never a part of it but I was always fascinated by the effects and music and ascii art that these guys created. A BBS in …

I'm in the same country. Another big reason to use a CB over a phone is that it's illegal to touch a phone while driving. No such restriction applies to CB radios. The tech is very…

> will be counted heavily against you. Yes, that's the problem Though, as someone who's done a number of those interviews over the years, I'd replace the word truthful with manner …

They're hard for me because the events that a lot of people consider achievements don't really stand out in my memory. Often I tend to forget they happened. I've solved some progra…

Yeah, Drepper said the same thing.

So what if it's using unbounded strcpy's all over the place? It has basically no attack surface. He wrote it for himself, not for criticism from the HN hoi polloi I didn't point th…

Yup. Lots of good security & safety innovations came from OpenBSD.

Those functions explicitly? I can't find any definitive explanation on why they exist. It looks like nowdays ZeroMemory() and RtlZeroMemory() are just macros for memset(). Here's a…

Yep, that's intended use case for strncpy(). It's not really suitable for general purpose programming like the OP is doing. It won't null terminate the string if the buffer is fill…

Heh, and if you use strncpy() you'll have to suffer through me lecturing you on why strncpy() is the wrong function to use as well.

There is something I like about win32 gui programming. It's a little idiosyncratic, but if you read Raymond Chen's blog you'll see why. The win32 API has its origins on the 8088 pr…

Back end coder for about 18 years. I don't have one, and no employer in an interview has ever really expressed interest in something like that.

So, Autocomplete, Lang Server and Copilot. I don't use any of those, and I've never felt the need for them really. Is Make and Vim not an IDE? None of those existed when I started …